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Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

Laziness always wins.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

I never could get a proper job.

Perfection is only chance.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.